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Israeli researchers report breakthrough in pre-natal genetic disease screening

Professor Idit Maya said the discovery has ‘significant implications, especially for Jews in Israel and the Diaspora’

4 min read

August 11, 2025 14:10

Professor Idit Maya and her team have created a new algorithm for measuring the pre-natal risk of genetic disease among the Jewish community (Image: Howard Blas)

Recognising a symbolic Palestinian state will only help Israel’s far right block a real one

Instead of empty gestures, Western leaders could have pressed for a detailed post-war plan – securing Gaza, removing Hamas from power, reforming the Palestinian Authority, and laying real foundations for future statehood

5 min read

August 11, 2025 13:16

Israeli far-right cabinet members Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

Canada

Orthodox Jewish man beaten in Montreal park in front of ‘traumatised’ children

The attacker was filmed punching the man repeatedly before throwing his kippah into a fountain

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August 11, 2025 12:25

An Orthodox Jewish man was attacked in a park in Montreal on Friday (Image: X/@gidonsaar)

Edinburgh Fringe

Arab-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid brings story of life ‘in between’ to debut Fringe show – just don’t let the title scare you

In ‘Between the River and the Sea’, renowned Israeli actor Sweid reflects on a life lived between Jewish and Arab, Israeli and Palestinian worlds – and being a father to Jewish children

4 min read

August 11, 2025 12:09

Edinburgh Fringe

The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review: A riveting, rip-roaring comedy with a Jewish heart ★★★★★

This French farce about the lesbian Jewish modernist couple is full of absurdity, profundity and make-believe – an unmissable delight

2 min read

August 11, 2025 11:54

Alyssa Simon, left, and Barsha as Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein in the play 'The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein', a must-see show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo: Edward Einhorn)

If a terror group is welcoming government policy, something is seriously wrong

The speech by Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis at Sunday’s hostage rally

3 min read

August 11, 2025 11:46

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis takes part in a 'National march for the Hostages' organised by Stop the Hate UK, in central London on August 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera reporter killed in Gaza strike was ‘head of terror cell’, IDF claims

Five employees of the Qatari-based network were killed when their tent was hit outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital

2 min read

August 11, 2025 10:49

The IDF has claimed that Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terror cell in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Jerusalem

Western Wall defaced with ‘Gaza Holocaust’ graffiti

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall, condemned the act as ‘desecration’

1 min read

August 11, 2025 10:29

A segment of the Western Wall has been defaced with graffiti declaring that 'there is a Holocaust in Gaza' (Image: X/@ shilofreid)

Progressive Judaism

Booing the heads of Progressive Judaism off stage at hostage march was ‘disgraceful’, BoD says

Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky were greeted with loud jeers when they showed support for the idea of a Palestinian state

3 min read

August 11, 2025 10:13

Rabbis Levy and Baginsky were faced with shouts of 'Get off the stage!' at August's hostage rally from some individuals in the crowd

Israel Iran War

Shoah survivor dies weeks after being wounded by Iran missile

Olga Weisberg left behind a husband, who is also a Holocaust survivor, as well as a daughter, grandson and great-grandson.

1 min read

August 11, 2025 09:42

A Holocaust survivor from Rehovot has died weeks after being injured in Iranian missile strikes (Pictured: The site of a missile impact in Rehovot on June 16; Image: Flash90)

Travel

El Al to offer a record 20 weekly flights to the UK this winter

The Israeli national carrier will step up its services to Heathrow and Luton from October

1 min read

August 11, 2025 09:18

El Al will expand to 20 weekly flights on its London-Tel Aviv route from October (Image: Getty)

Palestinian statehood

Australia to recognise Palestinian state next month

Anthony Albanese followed the lead of his counterparts in France, Canada and the UK, with New Zealand also weighing up the move

1 min read

August 11, 2025 09:02

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his government's intention to recognise a Palestinian state next month (Image: Getty)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi condemns Starmer at hostage rally where Progressive rabbis were booed off stage

Relatives of victims of October 7 spoke at the march to Downing Street

3 min read

August 10, 2025 21:30

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 10: Rev Sir Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth is seen with hostage families and supporters during a march to Downing Street on August 10, 2025 in London, England. Family members of hostages still held captive by Hamas in Gaza are marching alongside Jewish organizations and supporters to call on the UK government to defer plans to recognize a Palestinian state until all hostages have been released. Around 50 hostages remain in Gaza, of whom, fewer than half are believed to be alive. Last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged that Britain would recognize a Palestinian state by September, unless Israel agrees to several conditions, including steps taken towards a ceasefire and ending suffering in Gaza. (Photo by Belinda Jiao/Getty Images)

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

Attacked by left and right, the prime minister’s plans to seize the Strip’s capital risks deepening the Jewish state’s isolation. The failure to outline a coherent “day after” plan is a huge mistake

4 min read

August 10, 2025 13:41

Protesters gather in a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Palestinian Authority

Ben-Gvir urges Netanyahu to bring about PA collapse following its alleged UN recognition plans

Israel's national security minister was responding to a report that Mahmoud Abbas may renew his attempts to transform the PA into a state

1 min read

August 10, 2025 10:53

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas attends the opening of the Istishsari cancer centre in Ramallah on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Palestine Action

Met Police arrest 466 people at Palestine Action rally of 500-600 attendees

The police said it was the most arrests made related to a single operation in at least the past 10 years and denied organisers’ claim that they only arrested a fraction of those who broke the law

2 min read

August 10, 2025 10:37

Police officers remonstrate with protestors at a "Lift The Ban" demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action (Credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

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